Back to the Future

I worship my body. I took care of it from an early age and was aware that a healthy body was the key to sucking the nectar out of life. From my late teens — almost 40 years ago — to now, I kept it lean and mean. I ran marathons, biked continents, climbed glaciers,… Read More »

For the past 20 years, I spent most of my working hours sitting and staring into a screen. That’s about 30,000 hours’ worth. During those years I exercised at least an hour a day, which was a good thing but not good enough to neutralize the additional forces that were grinding my disks while I… Read More »

Imagine that I can wake up on any given day and decide to hop on a bike and ride across a continent, or walk across a mountain range, or kayak across a sound, or whatever I dream up and really do it. I spent years getting my body and mind honed into an adventure machine…. Read More »

Over the past two months I’ve visited several Western and Eastern healers and amassed prescriptions that ranged from steroids, pain killers, lotions and potions. Most of them are sitting in a pile on my desk untouched. I may need them down the road, but for now I decided to seek the kind of medicine that… Read More »

I visited Dr. Joe today hoping that he would read my MRI report and give me a road map to healing. Joe is a doctor of Osteopathy and he also practices yoga and acupuncture – making him an expert in Eastern and Western thinking. Osteopathic Medicine is the science of dealing with natural forces in… Read More »

Sometimes in June I completed one of my best Ashtanga-yoga sessions ever. I was in my peak, swishing, sweating, floating, flexing and grinning. There were scores of yogis in the room and I was the oldest and the most accomplished at pushing back age; a man doing his thing if there ever was one. The… Read More »

It’s been nearly two months and it was time to get on my bike and see if I can ride. Chris, who also had a herniated disk, said it took a year for her back to heal. She took up spinning and liked it. So I got on ol’ Bambina, my trusty steed of 30… Read More »